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CoolPlayer

Posted in June 8th, 2003

CoolPlayer is a nice, fast MP3 player targeted to Windows. This Open Source project is a nice piece of work, and the team has created a player that has the features to compete with good commercial players.

Build 214 of CoolPlayer shipped in June, 2003.

http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/

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Visual Text To Speech MP3

Posted in June 7th, 2003

This product takes your text, converts it to speech, then stores the result in one of several compressed formats, including MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and G.721.

http://www.visual-mp3.com/text-to-speech/

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Spoofing the Wily CRC

Posted in June 7th, 2003

This article on The Code Project web site shows you how to calculate a CRC, but even better it shows you how to create a file that will have a given CRC value.

http://codeproject.com/useritems/crcspoof.asp

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MP3FileInfo - Extract Header and ID3 Tags of a MP3 File

Posted in June 7th, 2003

This tutorial provides a useful class that lets you access the ID3 tags hidden in most MP3 files.

http://codeproject.com/useritems/MP3FileInfo.asp

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FreeZip

Posted in June 6th, 2003

Freezip, by Dariusz Stanislawek, is a completely
free Win32 application that does the usual job of zipping and
unzipping files, and includes full integration with Windows
Explorer.

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nulifetv/freezip/

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DIUcl

Posted in June 6th, 2003

DIUcl is a freeware port of UCL to Borland’s Delphi language. UCL is the compressor used in the UPX Ultimate Packer for Executables by Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer. Decompression is extremely fast, and requires very little memory. The author claims that the decompressor fits into less than 200 bytes of code. Supports in-place compression and decompression. […]

http://www.zeitungsjunge.de/delphi/ucl/index.htm

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Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms

Posted in June 4th, 2003

This book by David MacKay can be downloaded chapter by chapter and printed out for free. No indication that you can buy a hardcopy, although Amazon.com claims it will be published in January, 2002. Please read this 600 page tome and provide a review for this space!

Update: The author tells me this book will […]

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itprnn/book.html

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SheerVideo

Posted in June 4th, 2003

SheerVideo is a QuickTime video codec. Looks like they currently only support the Mac platform, but Linux and Windows support is promised soon.

http://www.bitjazz.com/sheervideo/

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Jpegpixi

Posted in June 3rd, 2003

This open source Linux project performs a very specialized task. It is used to repair images that have single pixel errors, such as that you might get from a camera with a single bad spot on the CCD. It interpolates from the neighboring pixels to create a new value, then inserts it without a decompress/recompress […]

http://jpegpixi.sourceforge.net/

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